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RE: more things CSS can't do that XSL can
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- Subject: RE: more things CSS can't do that XSL can
- From: "Moazzam Ahmed" <moazzam at ahmed dot net>
- Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 16:03:06 -0500
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
I know XSL is pretty powerful like pattern matching/selecting. but
doesnt XSL "use" CSS to create styling?
Moazzam
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Laurie Mann
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 8:35 AM
To: 'xsl-list@mulberrytech.com'
Subject: RE: more things CSS can't do that XSL can
I think CSS is certainly USEFUL for formatting HTML
documents, but I think you need a combination of XSL and CSS
to generate usable HTML from XML.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Volkmann [SMTP:volkmann@inlink.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 7:58 AM
> To: xsl-list
> Subject: more things CSS can't do that XSL can
>
> CSS can't output HTML tags so it can't output image or table tags.
> CSS2 can output tables but Netscape 6 doesn't support CSS2.
> CSS has no constructs corresponding to <xsl:if>, <xsl:choose> or
> <xsl:for-each>.
>
> I'm still shocked that Tim Bray said "for anyone who wants to deploy XML
> in
> production mode right now, XML + CSS is the way to go."
>
>
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